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Jacques Brel Quand On N'a Que L'Amour1958 English subtitles
This simple song was Brel's first major hit, reaching #3 on the international charts. It became his signature song, and strains of it were heard as the curtains closed on his farewell performance...
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Jacques Brel Dites Si C'Etait Vrai 1958 English subtitles
This Christmas offering from the soon to be atheist, anti-clerical Jacques Brel. During this early period, he was still under the influence of his Jesuit training, and, while beginning to...
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Jacques Brel Le Cheval English subtitles
Brel opened his Farewell concert at the Olympia with this unrecorded song , a put-on about a horse seduced into being a man, made to act against it's nature, used, abused and finally abandonned ,...
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Jacques Brel La Valse à Mille Temps 1959 English subtitles
An enormous hit for Brel early in his career, this waltz you can't dance to. Composed in a car beween Tangiers and Casablanca, it's a parody of the familiar, banal, musetta's waltz, like The...
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Jacques Brel Je Ne Sais Pas 1960 English subtitles
Brel sings of the heartbreak of being left behind by someone he loves with poetic poignance for French TV Sept. 17, 1960...
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Jacques Brel Le Gaz 1967 English subtitles
The first irony is that there's a whore, or courtesan, who lives on Madonna Street. Next is that the John who comes to see her must say he's the utilities serviceman, come "for the gas...
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Barbara Letter to Jacques Brel Gaugin English subtitle
Great Chanteuse Barbara writes a letter to Jacques Brel, buried in the same cemetary as Paul Gaugin, on the island of Hiva -Oa in the Marquesas...
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Jacques Brel Le Pendu English subtitles
A tragic-comic portrayal of a man conned into killing a woman's husband , then hanged for the crime as the woman flirts with the soldiers attending the gallows...
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Jacques Brel Brussels English subtitles
From pictures around his parents house in Belgium. Jacques contructed his song about life in his grandparents day, a time of happiness and high spirits...
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Jacques Brel La Statue English subtitles
Brel demystifies war heroism as a guilty ghost inhabits his statue and confesses he was less than the ideal they make him out to be...
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Jacques Brel Les Marquises English subtitles
The last track on Brel's 1977 last album describes his last stop at Hiva Oa in French Polynesia, the Marquesas Islands...
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Jacques Brel Chanson de Van Horst English subtitles
Song written by Jacques Brel for the opening and closing titles of his 1972 film Bar de La Fourche. Tune is similar to the tune of Le Pendu.
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Jacques Brel Le Dernier Repas English subtitles
Dynamite song from 1964, the height of Brel's career. He creates a character who lives in rebellion against the church and most everything...
